Tag: investment

Bitcoin! It is one of the most popular cryptocurrencies today and currently ranks number one on Coinmarketcap.com. Bitcoin is created using encryption techniques. “Cryptocurrencies function by taking on the work that centralized institutions like banks and credit card companies do and replacing it by cryptography and game theory mechanics,” said Sandeep Goenka, co-founder, Zebpay, an […]

Introduction Business Intelligence (BI) makes use of methods, processes, and technologies that help organizations to collect, store, report, and analyze business data for purposes of facilitating decision making. Institutions of higher learning are going through ab period of transformation as they become digitalized to make them competitive like other organizations. There is need to adopt […]

The Problem Hallam Engineering which is a Limited Partnership consultancy firm was approached by Airbus to provide engineering expertise to analyze the A350 and recommended design changes to improve the product or operation. The task includes A350 to be analyzed to assess the current performance and use the information obtained to make an informed […]

Project Appraisal & Finance Read and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each of these business cases with reference to the Business Case framework described by Gamble and the lecture sessions. We have studied the business cases of the following three: 1) Future health solution 2) FaB Project Management 3) Health Planning Partnership (HPP) […]

Introduction The conventional view of the monetary policy transmission and the basic tenet of the investment theory is that a increase in rates has a negative effect on the capital expenses by the business. The fundamental building block of any firm’s user cost of capital is market interest which further joined with the outcome […]

Summary This paper discusses the various issues and aspects related to the family businesses and highlight various parameters related to the family business such as the need for internationalization, diversity, components and elements of the diversity, the results of the diversity, and the competitions of the family businesses in the United States. Also, the successful […]

Capital Budgeting: Capital Budgeting is defined as the process of Project-Analysis using a set of tools and criteria to determine which projects are acceptable and which are not from a financial standpoint. Types of Projects: We can distinguish between two generic types of projects: Mutually-Exclusive Projects: are projects considered substitutes to one another, […]

Cash Flow Estimation and Risk Analysis In estimating Project Cash Flows, we have to keep in mind two considerations regarding what we mean by project cash flows: 1) Cash Flows that are relevant for a project are incremental (i.e., marginal cash flows). 2) Cash Flows that are relevant for a project are After-Tax Incremental Cash […]

Estimating the Cost of Capital The Cost of Capital for a company is a “weighted-average” of the costs of the different components of capital. Generally, only “investor-supplied” capital is considered as source of capital. Therefore, the following sources of Capital are available to fund future investments and growth opportunities of a company: Long-Term and Medium-Term […]

Time Value Of Money: we will discuss the following concepts: Computing the Future Value of a Single Payment. Computing the Present Value of a Single Payment. Computing the Future Value of an Annuity Ordinary Computing the Future Value of an Annuity Due Computing the Present Value of an Annuity Ordinary Computing the Present Value of […]

Overview of Financial Management We will learn about: Areas of Finance and duties of the Finance Team in a company Forms of Business Organization and their advantages and disadvantages Goal of the Finance Team in a company Agency Conflict in the modern day corporation Conflict between Shareholders and Managers Conflict between Shareholders and Creditors […]

Analysis of Financial Statements: we will discuss five key groups of ratios that describe company performance: Liquidity Ratios Asset Management Ratios Debt Management Ratios Profitability Ratios Market Value Ratios Liquidity Ratios: these analyze the short-term liquidity of a company (its ability to stay alive in the short-run without going bankrupt). There are two types […]

Financial Markets and Institutions we will discuss the following: Types of Financial Markets Types of Financial Institutions The U.S. Stock Market Types of Financial Markets: we can distinguish between different types of financial markets in the U.S., as follows: Physical versus Financial Asset Markets: Physical assets (aka, real assets) are tangible assets used in the […]

Analysis of Motives and Prospects within the OLI framework: a Case Study of German FDI in China Introduction China’s pleasant appearance as a speculation site owes chiefly to the sympathetic construction circumstances, particularly the very low effort expenses, and to the massive extent of its familial marketplace that is in the throes of improvement and […]

Understanding the state of corruption in Bangladesh Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction_ 4 Research Question & Situational Map_ 9 Literature Review_ 17 Research Design_ 31 Appendix – Interview Protocol 36 References 39 Abstract Corruption has been identified as one of the biggest obstacles in Bangladesh’s development. In this paper we plan to […]

GROOMING EXECUTIVES AND BUSINESS LEADERS THAT CAN DRIVE GROWTH AND INNOVATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY There is an urgent need for competent workforce at all levels across all industries globally and has resulted in creation and adoption of best practices. Many companies are now developing leadership by various concepts and methods including but not limited to rigorous […]